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Neil Holloway

Severe dyslexia has not stopped Holloway, 48, from rising to the top in the British computer industry. The son of a civil servant, he read maths at Bath and then went to Cambridge. After jobs in computing he joined Microsoft in 1990 and ran the British arm of the computer giant as managing director, based in Reading, until 2004. His share options value him at £35m. He is now vice-president for business strategy at Microsoft International.